Litchfield and Kakadu National Park

Our old group got split up as the vehicles for the Kakadu Nationalpark were 4 WD with less seats. Also we had a new tour guide which was probably the closest you can get to a real Crocodile Dundee, always walked barefoot, new a lot of scary Croc stories eating German Tourists and jumping from rocks high above into small water holes.

Our first stop was seing the amazing Termite sky scrapers were millions of those tiny animas live (mostly under the ground) Those buildings are highly efficently build with air conditioning and so on.

The next stop was swimming in the Croc free Florence Waterfall in Litchfield Park. The wet season up here is about to start and it is really hot an humid, making you sweat like a pig so a bath in cool water is always welcome. After lunch we went on to Water hollows, water holes were you could jump in, lay around or even dive to the ground to get some stones up. Of course I had to try, and was successful (yippiii). Then we finally were up to see some real Crocs (freshies and the tourist eating ones salties) on the Mary River Cruise. Apart from the crocodiles we also spotted white belly eagles and a lot of other water birds I forgot the name of, as well as Wallabies.

On our way back it suddenly started to rain, but not a nice Madrid shower but real Indian monsoon style rain. It didn't really stop the whole night but got also accompanied by strong wind that made you scare that the tent might fly off. But then the next morning everything was dry again, just amazing.

Next morning we went on to the Kakadu National Park which is actually the only World Heritage Site that contains a whole river system (thought you ought to know). Our first stop was the so called art gallery where aboriginal paintings could be found all over the rocks. The paintings as such dont have a great meaning, they are normally part of a story or are painted to teach their youngers. We headed on to the lookout which was actually a burial place, but still we were allowed to walk onto it, well probably like a public cementry. The view was amazing, seeing underneath the billabongs that will be carrying much more water during the wet season.

The we went for more swimming upon the Waterfall at Maguk. It was a croc safe zone as they cannot climb up the water fall. It was great swimming in different rock formed holes and also jumping in (I guess my highest jump was from 4 meters) and diving through arcs from one hole into the other. Really great fun.

Today we really had to use the 4 WD of our truck, it got quite shaky on our way to the Twin Falls. Really beautiful water falls, altough I'm sure they are even prettier after the rain, although probably not accessible as the whole place is flooded.

After the twin falls we carried on to see the Jim Jim falls, this time no water run down the rocks but nevertheless it wass amazing to see. It is a big water hole that is surrounded by at least 100 m solid rock which makes it amazing swimming in it and looking up.

Unfortunately after this refreshing swim our tour was ended and we headed back to Darwin where we had a nice night out with a couple (or more drinks)